In further defense of Liberty, it is a cool-climate apple like
McIntosh, hence does best where McIntosh grows and colors best.
(Although I have seen some very nice Liberty from northern NJ.) Yes,
it will be small unless thinned adequately but responds to BA
applications during the thinning
There are a few of us small beekeepers who use no treatments on their hives. I
have 6.
It will be interesting to see if we, as a group, have the same degree of loss
as the rest
of the industry. One guy in Vermont has around 200 hives. Of course he does
not move
them around the country.
Penn State has a good site about Colony Collapse Disorder. You can
hear about it by clicking on:
http://podcasts.psu.edu/node/287
You can also read about what is being done and the current status of
this disorder at:
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/ColonyCollapseDisorder.html
On Mar 29, 2
I have been a part of this group almost from the beginning, though only
a listener, not a contributor. There is additional and updated
information on this disorder on the Maarec site mentioned, and more
press than believable has been published about the problem. There is
additional information, and
This may not be helpful, but recently I came across a new book, The Cure for All
Diseases.
Quite a claim, right? Well, the author (a Canadian) sets forth the cause of
all chronic
disease as either pollution or parasites. The cure is to first locate the
specific
cause by means of its identified
Con,
Do you have the source citation your quoted material?
Reading other source material, I wrote of this in our March
Northeast Tree Fruit newsletter (March 2007, Vol. 11 No. 2. "COLONY
COLLAPSE DISORDER MAY IMPACT HIVE AVAILABILITY, PRICE") and
encouraged regional growers here to check the
This may not be helpful, but in the human population, when the immune system is
overwhelmed by tiny amounts of multiple toxins the body's defenses give up and
then we come down with all kinds of ailments...so the death certificate might
read death was caused by infection, but the cause was lack
The CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder ) working group recently published
a report of their finding entitled 'Fall Dwindle Disease: A
preliminary report December 15, 2006'. It can be found at:
http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/pressReleases/FallDwindleUpdate0107.pdf
Although the group is looking into the s
A new issue of Scaffolds Fruit Newsletter for Mar. 26 has been posted at:
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/ent/scaffolds/2007/070326.html
and contains the following items:
INSECTS
Climate change and insect pests
HORTICULTURE
Spring fertilizers
ERRATUM
Guthion/AZM on pears
[Please note th
Hello Jim,
I think that the pesticides that are most harmful to bees have been replaced by
safer types over the past few years, and bee keepers are fairly aware of what
pesticide kills look like. This seems to be something else.
Con
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Pollinating beesmaybe the chemical sprays are catching up with us and the
bees
Jim F.NY state
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Good comments Con.
I think that true sustainability will be more akin to IPM than to the set of
rules developed for organic. It will probably involve the use of pesticides
that are not organically approved, particularly some of the new generation
materials. It will probably involve genetic eng
Has there been any comment among apple growers in the US on the continuing
sharp decline in bee numbers?
I read the following recently, and believe that a few parts of Europe are
beginning to see localised colony collapses also.
Since last November, the US has seen a decline in bee populations s
Hello again Chris and all contributors,
I hope that I did not come across as too negative about the potential of scab
(or other pest or disease) resistant varieties. What I hoped to get across is
that nature is not static, and that it is virtually inevitable that resistance
will be broken down b
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